anyone know how long tales-cless/phantasian productions has been gone? they were pretty much dead for years now but with them gone too now it seems like any hope of future 'tales of' fan translations is rekt
If you're placing any hope whatsoever in tales-cless you're gonna be sorely disappointed, my man. He isn't just "Gone", he's "Gone, possibly requires mental well-being checks". Word is he deals with moderate to severe depression on the reg, to the point he's on meds for it. And that was
before he called it quits. He's fucked in the head enough that, technically, he never actually got to finish his Phantasia patch; he released it knowing full well it was saddled with a game-crashing bug that had been introduced if you tried sorting the Monster Encyclopedia alphabetically. It's said that he was afraid if he didn't release then and there (patch it later, if possible), he literally never would give enough of a fuck to. He's
not coming back, dude. The fact a follow-up to address the entire game shitting itself on an alphabetic sort was never released several years down the road should've told you that.
As far as anyone else picking up the torch on any other projects, some hope there remains, even after the suspect implosion of AbsoluteZero- a gentleman by the handle "Stormyu" had his own comparatively minor project for one of the other games (Rebirth, as I recall?) that was merely utilizing some of AbsoluteZero's infrastructure. It still goes on, according to him. Gotta say, though, I'm not so sure you've got a safe bet there either: the dude was only using AZT's infrastructure because they literally cannot remember the password to their own webserver (this is from the horse's own mouth, right?), resulting in the entire website sitting there, no updates for fucking years, making the project look abandoned or defunct. Even with being a long-timer on RHN, how competent could the guy be? Your guess is as good as mine.
Other than Stormyu, there are two other projects "semi-active". One I can't remember for the life of me (target game was one of the PS3 titles, though, so I didn't look into it super super close due to lack of interest in that platform), the other is by an obscure RHN member named "justin" with a buncha goddamned numbers after his name I can never keep straight. He's doing a ROMhack of the original SFC Phantasia, so even though that piques my interest I can't imagine it does much for you. As well as I can recall it is
only a hack/improvement, no retranslation of the DeJap script will be done.
